06-18-2015, 09:28 AM
(06-18-2015, 09:08 AM)Spaced Wrote: So one has no responsibility for what they say and how it will be received? It's all on the listener to just take it in and not be offended?
If you want honesty then here you go. You are using bigoted language and then defending your right to be a bigot. Sure you have that right, but we also have a right to call you out on it. Maybe you are the one who needs a slap in the face. What service are you offering here by belittling things that trans people have been fighting for for decades like basic respect for their identity?
Maybe you should seek within and ask why you have such a strong emotional reaction against referring to transgendered folks by their preferred pronouns and the idea that they don't have a disorder that needs to be fixed. After all, Ra spoke of consciously analyzing ones responses based upon biases one has set up for ones self within their respective incarnation.
Awesome some honesty
See I can accept your opinion and still disagree with it and actually be perfectly fine with what you've said. Its called constructive criticism and always something for me to think about so I appreciate it.
Nowhere in my mind did I belittle anyone. The terms I've used are from a medical standpoint. To mutilate the body is to remove or dramatically alter it's original form so something as simple as a breast augmentation would be considered. It also means something entirely different which could be construed as negative but that's where ones own biases present themselves.
I made it clear that my intentions were not from a point of malice and purposeful hurt. This would be entirely different if I would have said something like they were an abomination and have no right to do something like that. I made it clear way back in my original post that I fully accept whatever one does in their life and I was trying to understand the spiritual implications of I all.
If one took it another way, I apologized for it but would ever take it back because I was coming from a point of fascination and curiousory and nothing else. If you took it another way, that's not my problem.
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